Understood. I think I’m trying to figure out if there’s a better way to talk about this ‘intended meaning’ (that we don’t yet have access to) than to say ‘intended meaning’ or ‘intuitive meaning’. But maybe I’ll just have to say ‘intended meaning (that we don’t yet have access to)’.
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But one must not fall into the trap of thinking that a definition you’ve stipulated (aloud or in your head) for ‘ought’ must match up to your intended meaning of ‘ought’ (to which you don’t have introspective access). In fact, I suspect it never does, which is why the conceptual analysis of ‘ought’ language can go in circles for centuries, and why any stipulated meaning of ‘ought’ is a fake utility function. To see clearly to our intuitive concept of ought, we’ll have to try empathic metaethics (see below).
Understood. I think I’m trying to figure out if there’s a better way to talk about this ‘intended meaning’ (that we don’t yet have access to) than to say ‘intended meaning’ or ‘intuitive meaning’. But maybe I’ll just have to say ‘intended meaning (that we don’t yet have access to)’.
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